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The Treatment

Tony Okungbowa: Echo Park

The Treatment

KCRW

Arts

4.6639 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Actor/DJ Tony Okungbowa visits The Treatment to discuss producing and starring in Echo Park.

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0:00.0

On To the Point, we try to make sense of the policy debates and the political sideshows on the campaign trail.

0:05.8

You have this kind of asymmetrical warfare coming from a guy who's graded at a soundbite, lousy at an answer.

0:11.4

Are you looking for your own billionaire?

0:13.2

Nope. No, I don't want my own billionaire. I'm going to raise the vast majority of the money.

0:17.0

Race yourself America for what?

0:19.3

King Trump.

0:21.1

I'm Warren Alney.

0:22.1

To the Point has you covered for the 2016 campaign.

0:25.2

Find the To the Point podcast on KCRW's iTunes page.

0:30.1

From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's the treatment. It's The Treatment.

0:46.3

Welcome to The Treatment.

0:51.5

One of the fun things about doing the show is getting to discover a new film by somebody who I've been a fan of for a while.

0:56.5

And so at the LA Film Festival a couple years ago, I saw a film whose opening credit sequence basically tells us what we're seeing,

0:57.7

a film called Echo Park that takes us up Sunset Boulevard

1:00.4

into Echo Park.

1:02.2

And it's star and producer Tony Okunball

1:04.1

was sitting across from me.

1:05.1

First of all, it's a pleasure to have you here.

1:06.7

Oh, thank you so much.

1:07.6

I'm a huge fan of yours as well. I mean, if I can sort of take the liberty to say, besides the fact that I love the show, I mean, you're a man after my own heart, star-wise. I know this is the Tom Browns today.

1:20.2

Every time we see each other, we talk about fashion and watches and different things. So you're a man after my own heart. What they say in Diehardt, we could talk about men's fashions all day, but let's talk

1:27.8

about your movie instead, because it's really, you brought up something that we share,

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